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Rest, Repair, Repeat: The Complex Relationship of Autophagy and Sleep
21 May 2025
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Autophagy and sleep are two evolutionary conserved mechanisms across the animal kingdom. Autophagy is a pathway for the degradation of cytoplasmic material in the lysosome, playing important roles in the homeostasis and health of the organism. On the other hand, sleep is a homeostatically regulated state with numerous presumed essential roles, including the restoration of tissue and physiological functions, such...
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